Pride, Prejudice & Penguins

It is a truth universally acknowledged that witches raised as mundanes are going to be very, very confused.

Until this morning, Lizzy Bennett thought the oddest thing in her life was the fact that her mother named her and all her four sisters after Jane Austen characters. Then two penguins appeared and ran amuck in her home, closely followed by the Magical Council barging in and arresting her father for keeping her and the rest of her family under a strong compulsion. Now, she and her sister Jena (her mother thought "Jane" was too plain) are being sent away to a magical college to learn how to wield their own magic—which, apparently, exists.

Finding herself in a supposedly-abandoned medieval castle on a Scottish island, Lizzy tries to adapt to life at the Academy. But that's not so easily done when it's discovered that she's not only blind to magic, unlike every other witch, but also saddled with a Narrative Syndrome, a curse so rare the school has only dealt...